Was hoping to rip the lion's head off on what will wind up being my last early morning training session for the foreseeable future. Didn't quite happen, was aimless.

2/21

Clean
135x3
185x2
205
225
245
260 (F)
260
275 (F)

Clarked the attempt at 275 so just cut things there. Messing around with my set up again.

Back Squat
135x5
225x5
275x2
315x2
335x2
355x2

Felt heavy so stopped. Combination probably of the heavy front squats yesterday and the fact that I'm back to being lazy when I do these. Ankles and shins felt kind of tight after catching some of the cleans forward.

Exhausted after this weekend so slept later than I normally do on Sundays so wasn't going to have as much time, so rather than do both lifts, and rather than go heavy I decided to work for some volume.

Goal was to get at least 7 and I got 7. Got into a little groove in the middle and then lost things a little at the end. Sometime this week will look to hit 180 for 5 singles.

Front Squat
135x5
225x5
255x3
285x2
300x2
315x3
315x2
225x11

315x5 is a goal that still looms large here. Knew it wasn't happening after rep 1 of that first set, so made what I could out of it. Did the set at the end just because I was curious. 11 reps is a PR for 225.

One of our people put this together to where you scored yourselves by your reps of Thrusters and Swings and switched stations once a teammate got back from the run and after another teammate had finished 25 double unders.

Was pressed for time here so I was trying to go quick. Goal was to hit 5 singles at 180. Knew that might become an issue after I cracked myself in the hip crease with the very first warm up at 95. First time I'd done that in a while.

Jumped into a class and hit this with two of our other people. Went pretty well. Not a lot of fanciness here, just had to keep moving when you were the one working.

Stopped and coached a few classes, in our last class we wound up with an odd number so I told the two guys who would have had to hit it as a 2 that I would join their team if I could just row. They said ok.

Just kind of playing around here seeing where I could get to, 405 is a double overhand PR kind of by default since I've never really worked up heavy on it before. Probably had another 10-15 pounds in the tank. Am going to do my best to be diligent with these.

Press
135x3
155
165
177 (F)
167 (F)
135x5
135x5

Probably should have warmed up more here. Really need to figure out some semblance of organization on this lift so I can hopefully get things moving a little bit.

Gym just got jerk blocks in yesterday so there was no way I wasn't going to come in and take them out for a spin today. Exactly what I came in looking to do, and knocked off a goal that I've had for a while. 315 was a 4 lb PR.

Good volume in here. Eyes were set a little higher but that 305 set convinced me otherwise.

Banded Deadlifts
185 + Elite FTS Grey Bands x 2

12:00 OTM

Back in the summer when I was following Outlaw and Rudy was programming these I got on a kick where I was PR'ing like crazy. Back in December when I put these back in my programming I got on a kick where I was PR'ing like crazy. Now I'm no genius, but I think I might be on the right track by putting these back in here.

Felt awesome here. 285 was a 10 lb PR from the blocks at this height. After I hit that took a few shots at what would have been an all time clean PR but wasn't moving fast enough. Did the set of 5 just to see what it would feel like. More in the tank there.

Hit this with a nice sized group after the Oly session that I coach on Sundays. This was UB but it was also sneaky tough. It was steady all the way through but it wound up pretty uncomfortable by the end.